Word: merite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statesmanship. Several nominally uncommitted G.O.P. Governors, such as Ohio's James Rhodes and Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, privately favor Rockefeller. He must prove to these and other favorite sons that he can keep enough delegates out of Nixon's net between now and August to merit their support. Rockefeller must also rekindle the ardor of other Governors who have been chilled by his recent to-ing and froing...
Secret societies are difficult to justify in a democracy and at an institution where rewards are supposedly on merit. Unlike the groups of early Christians or the cells of the French Resistance, justification derives not from an oppressive outer force but rather from the members' inner needs for exclusivity. As James Baldwin has pointed out, everyone needs his "nigger." We are told by the Choate Club president that secrecy was necessary in order to avoid the anxiety suffered by those who weren't chosen. I suggest rather that secrecy at the Choate Club, in an egalitarian age where restrictive barriers...
...institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies its competitiveness on the accuracy of its system for rewarding merit. Where one decimal point in the grade average means a jump in class rank of twenty places and where a good letter of recommendation from a faculty member can be the difference between two students lumped at the middle of the class, there are few students who would not welcome...
...Merit Scholarships...
...Fred Jewett '57, director of Freshman Scholarships, said that there are more, rather than fewer Merit Scholarship winners in the Class of '72 than in the last two years' freshman classes. There were 110 Merit Scholars admitted in both the Class of '71 and the Class...